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Suicide girl Poppy Bracey ‘bullied to death for her beauty’

Blonde haired Poppy Bracey, 13, was bombarded by crank calls from jealous youngsters saying she should join a model agency for ‘ugly people’. She was found dead in her bedroom last week after returning to her foster home from classes at the 1,000-pupil Lowton High School, Greater Manchester. She had become so depressed she took a knife into school, saying she was planning to self harm, but it was found by teachers and Poppy was sent home. Her mother, Aileen Kelly, 42, of Wigan, said: ‘Despite Poppy being in foster care, I spoke to her three times a day and I saw her once a week. She was a clever girl and she had been getting good grades.‘But, about six months ago, it all began to go downhill. They would ring her late at night, saying they were from a model agency asking her if she wanted to join.’Mrs Kelly added: ‘My daughter didn’t think a lot of herself but she really was beautiful.’ An investigation has been launched by Wigan Council’s children’s services department.